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Position Summary: Reporting to the Radiation Measurement & Security Instruments (RMSI) General Manager, the R&D Director will have global responsibility for research and development and is responsible for creating and driving a market driven research and development strategy that supports the overall business objectives. S/he will leverage our existing technologies and develop novel technologies with a goal of transforming them into winning new products and solutions. S/he will oversee and managing multiple cross functional project teams to develop, commercialize, and launch new products and is responsible for developing technological roadmaps and creating a vision for the future product portfolios to offer new functionality or address newly identified market needs.

Essential Responsibilities:

Provide leadership, technical oversight as well as general direction, scheduling, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities for the multi-disciplinary group of scientists and engineers

Partner with Marketing & Product Management to ensure on-going alignment with market needs and the creation of market driven products

Identify and manage internal and external resources to insure successful completing of projects

Facilitate the interaction between teams/departments to achieve positive impact on product quality, manufacturability, time to market and overall profitability

Create innovative concepts and new ideas for consideration by the R&D enterprise through in-depth technology and market analysis coupled with industry knowledge

Create business strategies and implement to plan to meet organizational goals and objectives

Identifies new technology trends and opportunities to leverage new / emerging technologies and takes active role in generating multi-generational technology plans and multi-generational product plans

Conducts design reviews with the project team to constructively assist the team meet engineering, system and marketing specifications helping the team balance cost, schedule and quality project constraints

Technical and technology oversight of all R&D projects; NPD and Sustaining

Establish relationships with customers, academia, vendors and other Thermo Fisher Scientific development groups to identify technologies.

Identify potential M&A activities

Knowledge of the ANSI and IEC standards that relate to Radiation Detection Instrumentation and Dosimetry systems

Demonstrated strong leadership qualities, as well as excellent communication skills

Hands-on approach in leading a variety of projects and experiments; with the ability to define development project objectives and priorities.

Proven track record for effectively driving large scale change initiatives and working effectively in highly matrix organizations

Up to 33% travel required

This position does have relocation assistance.

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